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The Famine Stela is an inscription written in Egyptian hieroglyphs located on Sehel Island in the Nile near Aswan in Egypt, which tells of a seven-year period of drought and famine during the reign of pharaoh Djoser of the Third Dynasty. It is thought that the stele was inscribed during the Ptolemaic Kingdom, which ruled from 332 to 31 BC.
The stela recounts a seven-year period of drought and famine during the reign of King Djoser of the Third Dynasty. According to the inscription, Djoser receives a vision of Khnum, who promises to end the famine. In response, the king issues a decree of one-tenth of all revenue to be allocated to the Temple of Khnum as an offering of gratitude.
An inscription known as the Famine Stela and claiming to date to the reign of Djoser, but probably created during the Ptolemaic Dynasty, relates how Djoser rebuilt the temple of Khnum on the island of Elephantine at the First Cataract, thus ending a seven-year famine in Egypt. Some consider this ancient inscription as a legend at the time it ...
Sehel Island, spanning 3/4 the width of the Nile, is the primary large island below the Nile's First Cataract and the Aswan Low Dam (1902). Following downriver, the next major islands after Sehel are: Saluga, Ambunarti, Elephantine, and then Kitchener's Island.
Famine in the English Midlands [67] England: 1730s Famine in Damascus [4] Ottoman Empire: 1732–1733: Kyōhō famine: Japan: 12,172 – 169,000 [68] 1738–1756: Famine in West Africa, half the population of Timbuktu died of starvation [69] West Africa: 1740–1741: Irish Famine (1740–1741) Ireland: 300,000 – 480,000: 1750–1756: Famine ...
The Decree of Canopus is a trilingual inscription in three scripts, which dates from the Ptolemaic period of ancient Egypt.It was written in three writing systems: Egyptian hieroglyphs, demotic, and koine Greek, on several ancient Egyptian memorial stones, or steles.
The series publishes each book in a hardcover parallel-text format, with Arabic and English on facing pages, as well as in English-only paperbacks and free downloadable Arabic PDFs. For some texts, the series also publishes separate scholarly editions with full critical apparatus. [ 1 ]
In mid-2021, a severe drought in southern Madagascar caused hundreds of thousands of people to suffer from food insecurity. [ 148 ] [ 149 ] In October 2022, UNICEF contributed with $23 million for children suffering from the famine, [ 18 ] with a third of the population suffering from the disaster, according to researchers cited by the ...